Why is the state of Israel opposed by many Muslim states in the region?

Answer 1

After WWII, Jews were settled in a state controlled by Palestinian Arabs, a move supported by most of the European nations and the US. in the 1960's, the Jews took over the state militarily and turned it into the current Jewish state of Israel, driving many of the Palestinians out of the region and turning the rest into a largely disempowered minority. Most Arabs see the state of Israel as an illegitimate state imposed on the region by western powers in an effort destabilize the surrounding Arab/Muslim states and believe it should be removed (much the way the US saw the Iraqi take-over of Kuwait as illegitimate and took steps to remove it). add several centuries of conflict between Arabs and Europeans (the various European crusades and expansions of the Ottoman empire), where Jews are largely considered by Arabs to be European rather than semitic.

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The following facts were apparently dropped from the above account

because of some sort of computer error:

1). the continuous Jewish presence in the area since roughly 1200 BCE;

2). the stated policy of the British government 20 years before WWII that

some part of the mandate administered by the British in Palestine ought

by rights be re-designated a modern Jewish homeland;

3). the resolution by the majority of the UN General Assembly in 1947 to

partition the western extremities of the British mandate into regions

administered respectively by Arab and Jewish interests, in endorsement

of the British policy;

4). the declaration of independent statehood by Israel in 1948 (not "the 1960s"),

and its subsequent recognition by all but about 30 UN members;

5). the property, economic, voting, and legal rights of the "largely disempowered

minority", including its several elected representatives in the national parliament.

Answer 2

Israel represents many negative things to Arab Nations such as, Arab repression, Jewish ascendance, Western Imperialism, and Division of the Unified Arab Lands.

See the related link for the causes of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, which list a variety of particular reasons that Arabs are opposed to the State of Israel. Also see the link for "Why do Arabs hate Israel?" which explains why Arabs as individuals hate Israel.